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Ezekiel 33:18

When the righteous turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, he shall even die therein.

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Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Apostasy;   Backsliders;   Blasphemy;   Condescension of God;   God Continued...;   Judgment;   Responsibility;   Wicked (People);   Works;   The Topic Concordance - Death;   God;   Judges;   Man;   Repentance;   Turning;   Ways;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
When a righteous person turns from his righteousness and commits injustice, he will die for it.
Hebrew Names Version
When the righteous turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, he shall even die therein.
King James Version
When the righteous turneth from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, he shall even die thereby.
English Standard Version
When the righteous turns from his righteousness and does injustice, he shall die for it.
New American Standard Bible
"When the righteous turns from his righteousness and commits injustice, then he shall die in it.
New Century Version
When the good people stop doing good and do evil, they will die for their evil.
Amplified Bible
"When the righteous turns back from his righteousness and commits injustice, he will also die because of it.
World English Bible
When the righteous turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, he shall even die therein.
Geneva Bible (1587)
When the righteous turneth from his righteousnesse, and committeth iniquitie, he shall euen die thereby.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"When the righteous turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, then he shall die in it.
Legacy Standard Bible
When the righteous turns from his righteousness and does iniquity, then he shall die in it.
Berean Standard Bible
If a righteous man turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, he will die for it.
Contemporary English Version
If good people start doing evil, they will be put to death, because they have sinned.
Complete Jewish Bible
When the righteous person turns away from his righteousness and commits wickedness, he will die because of it.
Darby Translation
When the righteous turneth from his righteousness, and doeth what is wrong, then he shall die therein.
Easy-to-Read Version
If good people stop doing good and begin to sin, they will die because of their sins.
George Lamsa Translation
When a righteous man turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, he shall die in his iniquity.
Good News Translation
When someone righteous stops doing good and starts doing evil, he will die for it.
Lexham English Bible
When the righteous turns from his righteousness and does injustice, then he will die because of it.
Literal Translation
When the righteous turns from his righteousness and does iniquity, he shall even die by them.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
When the rightuous turneth from his rightuousnesse, and doeth the thynge that is wicked, he shall dye therfore.
American Standard Version
When the righteous turneth from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, he shall even die therein.
Bible in Basic English
When the upright man, turning away from his righteousness, does evil, death will overtake him in it.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
When the righteous turneth from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, he shall even die thereby.
King James Version (1611)
When the righteous turneth from his righteousnes, and committeth iniquitie, he shall euen die thereby.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
When the righteous turneth from his righteousnes, and doth the thing that is wicked, he shall dye therein.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
When the righteous turns away from his righteousness, and shall commit iniquities, then shall he die in them.
English Revised Version
When the righteous turneth from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, he shall even die therein.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For whanne a iust man goith awei fro his riytfulnesse, and doith wickidnessis, he schal die in tho;
Webster's Bible Translation
When the righteous turneth from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, for that he shall even die.
New English Translation
When a righteous man turns from his godliness and commits iniquity, he will die for it.
New King James Version
When the righteous turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, he shall die because of it.
New Living Translation
For again I say, when righteous people turn away from their righteous behavior and turn to evil, they will die.
New Life Bible
When the right and good man turns from his good way and sins, he will die for it.
New Revised Standard
When the righteous turn from their righteousness, and commit iniquity, they shall die for it.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
When the righteous man shall turn from his righteousness and commit perversity Then shall he die for them;
Douay-Rheims Bible
For when the just shall depart from his justice, and commit iniquities, he shall die in them.
Revised Standard Version
When the righteous turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, he shall die for it.
Young's Literal Translation
In the turning back of the righteous from his righteousness, And he hath done perversity -- he dieth for it.

Contextual Overview

10 And you, son of man, say to the house of Israel: Thus you speak, saying, Our transgressions and our sins are on us, and we pine away in them; how then can we live? 11 Say to them, As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn, turn from your evil ways; for why will you die, O house of Israel? 12 And you, son of man, say to the sons of your people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression; and as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall by it in the day that he turns from his wickedness; neither shall he that is righteous be able to live by it in the day that he sins. 13 When I say to the righteous, that he shall surely live; if he trusts to his righteousness, and commits iniquity, none of his righteous deeds shall be remembered; but in his iniquity that he has committed, therein he shall die. 14 Again, when I say to the wicked, You shall surely die; if he turns from his sin, and does that which is lawful and right; 15 if the wicked restores the pledge, gives again that which he had taken by robbery, walks in the statutes of life, committing no iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die. 16 None of his sins that he has committed shall be remembered against him: he has done that which is lawful and right; he shall surely live. 17 Yet the sons of your people say, The way of the Lord is not fair: but as for them, their way is not fair. 18 When the righteous turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, he shall even die therein. 19 And when the wicked turns from his wickedness, and does that which is lawful and right, he shall live thereby.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Ezekiel 33:12, Ezekiel 33:13, Ezekiel 18:26, Ezekiel 18:27, 2 Peter 2:20-22, Hebrews 10:38

Reciprocal: Jeremiah 18:10 - do Jeremiah 31:30 - General Ezekiel 18:24 - when Amos 5:7 - leave Revelation 22:4 - they

Cross-References

Genesis 25:20
And Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Paddan-aram, the sister of Laban the Syrian, to be his wife.
Genesis 28:2
Arise, go to Paddan-aram, to the house of Bethuel your mother's father. And take yourself a wife from there of the daughters of Laban your mother's brother.
Genesis 33:6
Then the female slaves came near, they and their children, and they bowed themselves.
Genesis 33:7
And Leah also and her children came near, and bowed themselves: and afterward came Joseph near and Rachel, and they bowed themselves.
Genesis 35:9
And God appeared to Jacob again, when he came from Paddan-aram, and blessed him.
Genesis 46:15
These are the sons of Leah whom she bore to Jacob in Paddan-aram, as well as his daughter Dinah. All the souls of his sons and his daughters were thirty-three.
Joshua 24:1
And Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and called for the elders of Israel, and for their heads, and for their judges, and for their officers; and they presented themselves before God.
Judges 9:1
And Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem to his mother's brothers, and spoke with them, and with all the family of the house of his mother's father, saying,
John 3:23
And John also was baptizing in Enon near to Salim, because there was much water there: and they came, and were baptized.
John 4:5
So he comes to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph:

Gill's Notes on the Bible

When the righteous turneth from his righteousness,.... This and what is said in the following verse are clear instances of the equality, justness, and goodness of the ways of God; and are again repeated, if possible, to make it clear and plain to them that their charge and complaint were groundless; :-,

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